ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Practical Farmers of Iowa is offering a cost share for member farmers who wish to adopt regenerative grazing practices that improve forage, soil, and water quality. Farmers will receive up to $5,000 to purchase portable, temporary fencing supplies; water transport and distribution supplies; and portable housing for grazing livestock.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This may seem like an antiquated concern for chefs in an era of global food distribution systems, but it’s an all-consuming preoccupation for Oyster Oyster, a restaurant named after two ingredients—a bivalve and a mushroom —known for their ecosystem benefits. Come February, we have this very short farm list.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

In just three years, the 25-year-old entrepreneur, who started off with a seasonal pushcart, has opened two shops and now distributes pints to about 60 grocery stores in Oregon and Washington. Using a $40,000 DBII grant, he’s acquired an additional fleet of machines and is working toward nationwide distribution.

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Agwired

JANUARY 9, 2025

IPSA represents nearly 100 seed companies from more than 25 states, Canada and Mexico, who produce corn, soybeans, small grain and forage seeds. Pivot Bio is proud to announce a strategic distribution partnership with Hefty Seed Company, one of the largest independent ag retailers in the U.S.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 10, 2024

Smith’s team has been visiting farms and testing soil, plants, and milk to understand how PFAS move from the ground into forage crops, including grasses and corn. This is “real-world science,” Smith says, watching a colleague snip plants and collect soil samples. Stay in the Loop!

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Animal Welfare: Well-managed grazing practices ensure that cattle have access to fresh forage and clean water, which directly impacts their health and well-being. This allows for periods of rest and recovery for the land and helps maintain healthy forage. Avoid overstocking, as it can lead to overgrazing and land degradation.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

The authors also note ongoing and increasing “disruptions to the ability of subsistence-based peoples to access food through hunting, fishing, and foraging.” Higher summer temperatures have stressed crops, while higher lows in the winter have meant damage to perennial forage. Consequently, less forage is likely to be available.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

AUGUST 22, 2024

In June 2024, this company which enables AI-driven autonomous farming, announced its entry into a multi-phase partnership to collaborate on the distribution, manufacturing and integration of Bluewhite’s autonomous solutions for New Holland tractors. A notable autonomous technology company on display for show attendees is Bluewhite.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 4, 2024

Distributed at music festivals and public events and in municipalities throughout Belgium, France and Luxembourg, the upcycled product, which looks like a hollowed-out wheel of camembert, brings the process full circle by reining in the world’s most discarded waste item.

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Agwired

AUGUST 9, 2023

Yanmar America Corporation , a leading provider of tractors, UTVs and industrial equipment, proudly announces the opening of its brand-new Regional Distribution Center (RDC) in Lakewood, WA. Today, cover crops are used on 15.4 million acres, which is only about 6% of U.S. cropland, according to the 2017 USDA Census of Ag.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Proof & Company, Singapore In partnership with ecoSPIRITS , Proof & Company distributes 14 of its spirits in Singapore using circular packaging. 64° Reykjavik Distillery, Iceland 64° Reykjavik Distillery continues Iceland’s tradition of foraging and respect for the land.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

By “mimicking nature,” the grazing patterns of ruminants benefit from natural forage and room to roam, all the while “maximizing soil health and biodiversity” of plants, insects, and other animals. Preparing grass-fed beef for serving at the Meat Summit.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 5, 2024

And thanks to donations, some milk is distributed for free to school children and poor people with health problems, such as TB. During the course of a year, the camels forage on different types of land that include harvested fields, forest, sacred groves and what is classified as revenue land.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Prescribed grazing, for example, including forms such as management intensive rotational grazing that allow for short-duration presence of livestock on a given part of the landscape, can improve the quality of forage and increase the presence of native perennial plants.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 30, 2023

Applying to Italian ryegrass forage after each harvest. Note that we are talking about pasture that has plenty of forage biomass to graze and not a dry lot pasture where you are feeding. If we manage livestock integration well, manure distribution can rival mechanical application.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Expands the types of “new or innovative conservation approaches” funded through On-Farm Conservation Innovation Trials to include on-farm nutrient recycling, perennial production systems including agroforestry and perennial forages and grain crops, and livestock-related practices that reduce GHG emissions including enteric methane emissions.

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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 18, 2025

It is a food distribution and equity problem. An acre may provide foraging for cattle, sheep, pigs, laying hens, broilers and turkeys. Yet we are told repeatedly that we have a food crisis on our hands and must drastically ramp up food production, but just eliminating our food waste alone would come close to feeding our population.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Fescue toxicity is the most devastating livestock disorder east of the Mississippi,” said Craig Roberts, a forage specialist at the University of Missouri (MU) Extension and an expert on fescue. That extra forage also allows ranchers to feed more cows. A functioning grassland with different plants serving different functions. “It

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 1, 2024

State and city governments can purchase from Indigenous food producers, such as farmers, foragers, hunters, and fisheries, which would help strengthen and grow much-needed food economies. Dismantling these barriers would require a lot of work, but it could start in public spaces.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 27, 2024

Environmental benefits Regenerative grazing—or closely managing where and for how long animals forage—is a farming practice that can improve soil health and plant diversity. The mobile app connected to the virtual fence collars distributes real-time data on the rancher’s herd, providing information on animal health and location.

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Civil Eats

MAY 15, 2024

Casazza and other wildlife scientists have documented waterfowl using agricultural facilities—from foraging for grain in feedlots to roosting in effluent ponds—but questions remain about why the birds seek out the facilities and the potential connections to the spread of avian flu. This low-lying stretch of land produces a quarter of the U.S.

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

After the government officially declared that the public health emergency was over, the 32 states and territories still distributing emergency benefits—including Washington, D.C., RS: This move was expected, because the SNAP “temporary allotments” you referenced were only intended to be a short-term pandemic measure.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 25, 2024

Herbicides and habitat loss have destroyed the bees’ forage. Meanwhile, there are signs that almond growers are becoming more amenable to bee-friendly practices such as modifying pesticide use and planting flowers in their orchards that would provide alternate forage for the bees while they wait for the almond bloom.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 5, 2023

Herbicides and habitat loss have destroyed the bees’ forage. Meanwhile, there are signs that almond growers are becoming more amenable to bee-friendly practices such as modifying pesticide use and planting flowers in their orchards that would provide alternate forage for the bees while they wait for the almond bloom.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Herbicides and habitat loss have destroyed the bees’ forage. Meanwhile, there are signs that almond growers are becoming more amenable to bee-friendly practices such as modifying pesticide use and planting flowers in their orchards that would provide alternate forage for the bees while they wait for the almond bloom.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 11, 2023

Herbicides and habitat loss have destroyed the bees’ forage. Meanwhile, there are signs that almond growers are becoming more amenable to bee-friendly practices such as modifying pesticide use and planting flowers in their orchards that would provide alternate forage for the bees while they wait for the almond bloom.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Herbicides and habitat loss have destroyed the bees’ forage. Meanwhile, there are signs that almond growers are becoming more amenable to bee-friendly practices such as modifying pesticide use and planting flowers in their orchards that would provide alternate forage for the bees while they wait for the almond bloom.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Starting with refrigerated storage on the farm, the artificial cryosphere includes meat processing facilities, distribution centers, trucks and shipping containers, and supermarket display cases—a vast network designed to ensure safe, efficient, and convenient delivery of food into our iceboxes.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In Grotegut’s case, wheat grown in grasslands is certified as “mixed-species forage” by the USDA’s Farm Service Agency. Yet this funding is unevenly distributed to mainly benefit the largest 10 percent of farms. It is certified organic and ends up in bakeries, but it’s also denied coverage as wheat.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The outcome could be a network of “food forests,” community spaces where volunteers tend fruit trees and other edible plants for neighbors to forage. A lot has to go into the planning of where the food forest is, when the fruits are harvestable, and whether the harvestable fruits are equitably distributed.”

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Our Staff Reporter Grey Moran has a delightful article about foraging , published in Grist, included in the book. smith Slow Drinks: A Field Guide to Foraging and Fermenting Seasonal Sodas, Botanical Cocktails, Homemade Wines, and More By Danny Childs Danny Childs studied ethnobotany in college. To make an amaro (relatively easy!)

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Farmbrite

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Pasture Management and Sustainability Practices : Implement rotational grazing and manage pasture quality to optimize forage availability and promote soil health. Try to limit direct livestock contact and access to feed storage, distribution equipment, bedding, feeders, and waterers.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2025

In forested pastures, chickens can freely forage on plants, sprouted grain, and bugs and dont rely on antibiotics, according to the organization. Terra Regenerative Capitals funding is being distributed at a time when the Trump-Vance administration is committing to reduction in or elimination of federal funding for climate-smart policies.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Benefits of Pastured Dairy Pasture-based dairies, defined by USDA researchers as those where cows get at least half of their forage from pasture during the grazing season, are a comparative rarity in the United Statesjust 16 percent of the countrys dairy farms. The majority of the countrys 9.3 Another initiative, a nearly $4.8

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Bras was known for going on foraging excursions into the hills surrounding the Massif Central mountains in south-central France, in search of wild ingredients. When my father died just after the holidays, I returned to Mondrian as chef de cuisine, planning the menu and overseeing the day-to-day activities of the kitchen.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Bras was known for going on foraging excursions into the hills surrounding the Massif Central mountains in south-central France, in search of wild ingredients. When my father died just after the holidays, I returned to Mondrian as chef de cuisine, planning the menu and overseeing the day-to-day activities of the kitchen.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Bras was known for going on foraging excursions into the hills surrounding the Massif Central mountains in south-central France, in search of wild ingredients. When my father died just after the holidays, I returned to Mondrian as chef de cuisine, planning the menu and overseeing the day-to-day activities of the kitchen.

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